The ongoing outbreak in Shijiazhuang, a city of 11 million people, has prompted the authorities to build there a large quarantine center to isolate people at risk. Hundreds of workers assisted by cranes assemble white prefabricated rooms on a large earthy lot on the outskirts of town. The Chinese state television channel CGTN broadcast images of this gigantic construction site.
Scenes that remind the construction in a few days last year of makeshift hospitals in Wuhan, the Chinese city where the new coronavirus was first detected.
Quarantine center under construction in Shijiazhuang will be equipped bathrooms, hot water, Wi-Fi and air conditioning. Once completed, in a few days according to the media, it will host more than 4,000 people in total. Its construction began on January 13, amid the emergence of small outbreaks of Covid-19 in cities in northern China.
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